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NAME

       scriptreplay - play back typescripts, using timing information

SYNOPSIS

       scriptreplay [options] [-t] timingfile [typescript [divisor]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  program  replays  a  typescript, using timing information to ensure that output happens in the same
       rhythm as it originally appeared when the script was recorded.

       The replay simply displays the information again; the programs that were  run  when  the  typescript  was
       being  recorded are not run again.  Since the same information is simply being displayed, scriptreplay is
       only guaranteed to work properly if run on the same type of terminal  the  typescript  was  recorded  on.
       Otherwise,  any  escape  characters  in  the typescript may be interpreted differently by the terminal to
       which scriptreplay is sending its output.

       The timing information is what script(1) outputs to standard error if it is run with the -t parameter.

       By default, the typescript to display is assumed to be named  typescript,  but  other  filenames  may  be
       specified, as the second parameter or with option -s.

       If  the  third parameter is specified, it is used as a speed-up multiplier.  For example, a speed-up of 2
       makes scriptreplay go twice as fast, and a speed-up of 0.1 makes it go ten times slower than the original
       session.

OPTIONS

       The first three options will override old-style arguments.

       -t, --timing file
              File containing script's timing output.

       -s, --typescript file
              File containing script's terminal output.

       -d, --divisor number
              Speed  up  the  replay  displaying this number of times.  The argument is a floating point number.
              It's called divisor because it divides the timings by this factor.

       -m, --maxdelay number
              Set the maximum delay between transcript updates to number of seconds.  The argument is a floating
              point number.  This can be used to avoid long pauses in the transcript replay.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

EXAMPLE

       % script --timing=file.tm script.out
       Script started, file is script.out
       % ls
       <etc, etc>
       % exit
       Script done, file is script.out
       % scriptreplay --timing file.tm --typescript script.out

SEE ALSO

       script(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2008 James Youngman
       Copyright © 2008 Karel Zak

       This  is  free  software;  see  the  source  for  copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       Released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

AUTHOR

       The original scriptreplay program was written by Joey  Hess  ⟨joey@kitenet.net⟩.   The  program  was  re-
       written in C by James Youngman ⟨jay@gnu.org⟩ and Karel Zak ⟨kzak@redhat.com⟩.

AVAILABILITY

       The  scriptreplay  command  is  part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive
       ⟨ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.